Republican Rep. Ken Buck is exiting Congress early, further eroding GOP majority [Updated 13 March 2024]
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NBC News ^
| 12 March 2024
"Today I am announcing that I will depart Congress at the end of next week," Buck said in a statement...His departure will cut the House Republican margin to 218-213...Buck is a member of the ultraconservative House Freedom Caucus, but he made a name for himself in Washington for frequently breaking with his
party on major issues...Most recently, Buck broke with his party and was one of three Republicans who voted against the impeachment of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas.
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Republican Rep. Ken Buck is leaving Congress, further eroding GOP majority
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NBC ^
| 3/12/24 | staff
Rep. Ken Buck (R-Colo.) said Tuesday he will resign from Congress later this month rather than serve out the remainder of his term through 2024. Why
it matters: The surprise announcement will cause House Republicans' already razor thin majority to dwindle even further
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Elon Musk unleashes in fiery Rogan podcast: Tesla owner slams George Soros for 'eroding the fabric of civilization', says he bought Twitter because it was being 'controlled by the far-left' and warns of the woke 'mind virus'
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Daily Mail UK ^
| Nov 1 | By HARRIET ALEXANDER
Elon Musk on Tuesday declared that George Soros 'hates humanity', because he backs policies which 'erode the fabric of civilization'. Musk,
52, appeared on Joe Rogan's podcast, with the pair swilling what appeared to be whisky and smoking cigars as they roamed over a broad range of issues over two hours. The X CEO said he bought Twitter a year ago because he felt it was 'having a corrosive effect on civilization', and spreading the 'woke mind virus' at a dangerous pace, and condemned COVID restrictions, claiming that people put on ventilators were killed by the ventilators, not the virus....
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Man barges into charcuterie store demanding free food as news crew interviews owner about homeless crisis eroding sales [Denver]
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Blaze ^
| August 17, 2023 | CARLOS GARCIA
A man barged into a Denver business looking for free food while the owner was being interviewed by a news crew about the drop in sales over the homeless crisis. The
bizarre incident was included in a report from KMGH-TV that included other interviews with business owners who were frustrated by the garbage and crime driving away customers from their businesses. Melanie Flint, the owner of Cheese Meat Board, appeared bewildered as she addressed the man. “What can we do for you?” she asked. “I was just gonna grab a sample, sorry,” the man replied. “We have sandwiches,” Flint responded....
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The States Power Down: Ambitious renewables mandates by local governments are eroding the electric grid’s reliability, with alarming consequences.
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City Journal ^
| Winter 2023 | Steven Malanga
Vermont is one of the nation’s most environmentally friendly states. But
two years ago, the backers of a local wind-energy farm shelved the project after intense public opposition. An initiative supporter noted how the controversy reflected rising hostility to wind power. Whereas a decade ago, ambitious developers had planned a dozen renewable-energy projects in Vermont, by 2020, most had either folded or failed to win regulatory approval. “This is truly a sad state of affairs for Vermont,” the CEO of a green-energy firm said, while pointing out that the state has mandated that 75 percent of its power should come...
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Study: 70 percent of Florida’s coral reefs are eroding
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The Hill ^
| 12/06/2022 | Gianna Melillo
Seventy percent of coral reefs off the coast of Florida are eroding and experiencing a net loss of habitat, according to new research out of the University of Miami Rosenstiel School of Marine, Earth and Atmospheric Science. The decline is a result of bleaching events which are driven by climate change, ship
groundings and disease. In 2014, researchers discovered an outbreak of Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease, which is decimating reefs both in Florida and the Caribbean. The state’s coral reefs also support around 70,000 jobs and generate $8.5 billion annually, data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)...
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Report: Ukrainian Victories Eroding Trust in Russian High Command
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NewsMax ^
| September 9, 2022 | Luca Cacciatore
The Institute for the Study of War released a Thursday report claiming that Ukraine's counteroffensive in Kherson and the Donbas is taking its toll on the Russian high command. Specifically,
ISW pointed to Ukrainian victories outside the cities of Kharkiv and Russian-controlled Izyum as creating significant fissures within the Kremlin's "information space" and eroding confidence in their leadership. Ukrainian forces reportedly moved 31 miles to Russian defensive positions in Balakliya on Thursday, but Moscow forces failed to acknowledge any such advancement. According to ISW, the silence caused an eruption of Russian internet backlash against the military.
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'THIS is why trust in America's schools is eroding': Outrage over ANTIFA teacher's $190,000 payout as school board blames California teachers' union for making it 'impossible' to fire staff
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Daily Mail UK ^
| August 12, 2022 | Jennifer Smith
There is growing outrage over a California school board's decision to give a pro-communism, ANTIFA teacher a generous $190,000 payout instead of firing him after he was exposed for trying to indoctrinate kids to become 'revolutionaries'. Gabriel
Gipe was last year exposed by Project Veritas. A teacher at Inderkum High School, he plastered his classroom with photos of former Chinese leader Mao Zedong with the slogan 'Antifascist Action'. The Natomas Unified School District placed him on paid leave pending an investigation and four months later, struck a deal with him in which he received $190,000 and he tendered his resignation....
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Too little, too late: Intel's legacy is eroding
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The Register ^
Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger's carefully assembled house of cards is collapsing around him. And
it's not really that surprising when you look at the hand he's been dealt. For those that haven't been following Intel product roadmap that closely, here's a quick recap of where things stand today. The company is stuck on an aging 10nm process; its desktop CPUs are ludicrously power hungry; its dedicated GPUs aren't particularly competitive, even when their drivers do work; its upcoming processor families are hopelessly behind schedule; and it just killed off Optane, which was arguably its most promising development in recent memory....
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US leaks of Israeli covert ops against Iran eroding trust, security ahead of Biden visit to region
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https://justthenews.com ^
| Updated: July 10, 2022 - 11:10pm | By Aaron Kliegman
Many observers believe leaking this information is tied to the Biden administration's efforts to revive the 2015 Iran nuclear deal. As
President Biden prepares to visit Israel and Saudi Arabia next week, experts and former officials are warning that an often-overlooked issue risks undermining efforts to increase cooperation among U.S. allies in the Middle East. That issue is anonymous U.S. officials consistently leaking information to the media about alleged covert Israeli operations against Iran, from targeted killings to explosions at nuclear sites. "It's a sign of extraordinary incompetence and unprofessionalism from Biden and his foreign policy team," said Fred Fleitz,...
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Sports Illustrated Blasted for Saying Prayer in Sports is ‘Eroding Democracy’
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breitbart ^
| PAUL BOIS13 Jun 2022
Sports Illustrated has been taking a beating on social media after it criticized a Supreme Court case centered on religious freedom. As
Breitbart News profiled, Sports Illustrated waded into political waters on Monday with an article by Greg Bishop bashing the Supreme Court case centered on Bremerton High School assistant coach Joe Kennedy, who was sanctioned by his school district in 2015 for praying on the field with his players. Tellingly, Bishop argued that Kennedy’s potential win in court could be an “erosion” of American democracy. “This Sports Illustrated article is little else but a long smear against Christians, conservatives,...
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Climate change is eroding a precious resource: sleep
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National Geographic via MSN ^
| May 25, 2022 | By Alejandra Borunda
Everyone knows the horrible feeling: A stuffy night, just a little too warm, leads to restless sleep, and then next morning, you feel like a slow, groggy shell of yourself. That
feeling isn’t just unpleasant. Years of research show that sleep deprivation can ramp up heart disease risk, intensify mood disorders, slow one’s ability to learn, and much more—problems with big personal, societal, and economic costs. Now a new study links sleep loss—and by extension, all the problems that come with it—with climate change. Researchers from the University of Copenhagen found that ever-warmer nighttime temperatures, nudged higher by climate change,...
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Paleontologists Find Largest Jurassic Pterosaur Fossil Eroding on a Scottish Beach
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Gizmondo ^
| 23 Feb 2022 | Isaac Schultz
A group of paleontologists discovered a large, well-preserved pterosaur on a rocky beach off the coast of Scotland. Boasting roughly an 8-foot wingspan, the ancient reptile is the largest of its kind to be found from the Jurassic Period. The animal’s existence was a chance find made in 2017, when paleontologist Amelia
Penney stumbled across the creature’s head while photographing dinosaur footprints on a rocky beach on the Isle of Skye. The pterosaur was promptly sawed out of the rock (with a couple pauses to deal with the tides, which threatened to wash away the fossil) and exhaustively studied; the...
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Narrative of a perfect 2020 election eroding as Wisconsin becomes investigative ground zero
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https://justthenews.com ^
| By John Solomon Updated: October 29, 2021 - 12:59am
Evidence grows of election mismanagement, illegal acts and some fraud in several states. Cognitively
impaired nursing home residents in Wisconsin and Michigan cynically exploited for votes. Election mismanagement in Atlanta. Unlawful election instructions in Wisconsin. And 50,000 questionable ballots in Arizona, plus several criminal cases for illegal ballot harvesting and inmate voting. Eleven months after Donald Trump was ousted from office, the narrative that the 2020 election was clean and secure has frayed like a well-worn shoelace. The challenges of the COVID pandemic, the aggressive new tactics of voting activists and the desire of Democrats to make the collection and...
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Eroding Congressional Support for Israel Is Cause for Alarm
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Townhall.com ^
| October 14, 2021 | Armstrong Williams
With instability and political unrest roiling the world stage, it is more important than ever for America to have solid allies in the Middle East, a dangerous region historically rife with conflict and dysfunction. Americans
know and understand almost innately that Israel's values are a mirror of our own: Israel champions democracy and the rule of law, has a strong judiciary and demonstrates freedom of religion and the press. However, our recent hurried withdrawal from Afghanistan and the ensuing chaos illustrates how quickly fortunes can change in this volatile region. The resulting pandemonium underscores how much we need a steady...
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'Woke' Christians Are Eroding Donald Trump's Base and Dividing the Evangelical Church
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Newsweek ^
| 10/1/20 | Paul bond
"We need to talk about race," Phil Vischer says in a video posted June 14 on YouTube. The evangelical creator of VeggieTales, a children's show that tells Bible stories using animated vegetables with names like Junior Asparagus and Pa Grape, tells viewers in his 17-minute video that Black households have one-tenth the
wealth as white ones and delves into the history of Jim Crow laws, the "war on drugs" and "militarized police." He talks about a TV news media that scares Americans with images of Black criminals and teachers who favor white kids due to their "unconscious bias." Call Vischer...
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Rising inequality eroding trust in capitalism - survey
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The Associated Press ^
| January 20, 2020 | By PAN PYLAS
DAVOS, Switzerland -- Rising income inequality is undermining confidence in capitalism around the world, according to a survey conducted by public relations firm Edelman ahead of the gathering of the elites in the Swiss ski resort of Davos. Among those surveyed in the report published Monday, 56% thought that capitalism was doing
more harm than good despite another year of solid economic growth and near-full employment in many developed countries. “We are living in a trust paradox,” said Richard Edelman, the CEO of Edelman, which has been conducting its survey of trust for 20 years. “Since we began measuring trust,...
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Fear, Silence and Inaction: Eroding Catholic Civil Rights
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Lepanto Institute ^
| September 17, 2019 | Bob Marshall
Fear, Silence and Inaction: Eroding Catholic Civil Rights The following is written by Hon. Robert Marshall, former member of the Virginia House of Delegates The so-called Equality ActOn October 30, 2008, Barack Obama said, “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” The legal policy changes wrought
under the Obama Administration paved the way for the so-called Equality Act, HR 5, which passed the U.S. House of Representatives on May 17, 2019 by a vote of 236 to 173. The Equality Act would fundamentally and radically alter Civil Rights Law to prohibit “discrimination” on the...
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Americans Are No Fools, Trust Is Eroding In Dems ‘Witch Hunt’
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Sara Carter.com ^
| 3/18/2019 | Sara Carter
There should be no doubt the American people are not fooled by the nearly three years of the politically charged ‘witch hunt’ against President Donald Trump. In growing numbers a greater majority of people, who are exhausted of being the pawns of Trump’s enemies, both Democrats and yes, some Republicans, want it
to stop. Those enemies have worked diligently for two years to turn the nation against a sitting president and have him impeached. It’s now backfiring. Why? It’s simple: truth. There is no evidence that the Trump campaign was colluding with Russia. No matter which way his enemies try...
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House GOP leaders fear support eroding for Trump’s shutdown fight
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MSN News ^
| 1/8/2019 | Sarah Ferris and John Bresnahan
Several dozen House Republicans might cross the aisle this week to vote for Democratic bills to reopen shuttered parts of the federal government, spurring the White House into a dramatic effort to stem potential GOP defections. White
House officials and Republican congressional leaders worry that GOP support for the shutdown is eroding, weakening President Donald Trump’s hand as he seeks billions of dollars for a border wall that Democrats have vowed to oppose, according to GOP lawmakers and aides.
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